Packard Clipper

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The Packard Clipper is an automobile series built by the Packard Motor Car Company (and by the later Studebaker-Packard Corporation) for model years 1941–1942, 1946–1947, and 1953–1957. It was named for a type of sailing ship, called a clipper. The Clipper was introduced in April 1941, as a mid-model year entry. It was available only as a four-door sedan. The extreme top-rung high hat models had had their day, with engineering improvements, less expensive, more rationally sized fare predominating. Since the action was in the increasingly sophisticated, upper-medium price field, the debut Clipper line was aimed at Buick Roadmaster, Cadillac's cutthroat-priced Model 62, Chrysler Saratoga/New Yorker, and Lincoln (through 1940 known as Zephyr). The Clipper name was re-introduced in 1953, for the automaker's lowest-priced lineup, leading some to think it was a cheap car initially, instead of a full-range offering. By 1955, the Clipper models were seen as diluting Packard's marketing as a luxury...

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